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Estimating fuel consumption...!
Hi All,

I am currently working on my trip budget, and have pretty much got everything done, including my fuel consumption calculations.

What I am wondering is if I am anywhere near a decent estimate.

We are planning our trip from UK, thru Europe, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Egypt down the east side of Africa to Cape Town.

Current I have estimated our trip to be 25,000km and estimated the fuel consumption at 4.5 km/litre.

Am I anywhere near the right figure, what is your advise?

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Depends!
On what you are driving? Your estimate seems a bit excessive for say a CRD modern vehicle, or Damn impressive for a 8x8 MAN <BG>
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Hi Dan,

What vehicle are you traveling in?

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Hi,

knew I forgot to put something in!

It will be a Toyota Land Cruiser 4.2 Diesel, non Turbo probably

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1HZ 4.2 consumption
I would say your estimate is very much erring to the side of caution. I have driven numerous 1HZ 4.2 Toyotas and found that for long distance travel - even including pretty heavy terrain you will probably not dip below an average of 13-15L/100kms. I hope this helps,
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- ahhh I see you are measuring in km/l!
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That is really helpful. I do like to be cautious.

I may up my figure, a bit then.

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Dan,

Unless you have the budget to import an 80 - the chances are you will only be able to find a turbo 80 over here - for these the consumption can vary from 15mpg through to 35mpg depending on age of vehicle, loading, engine spec, etc.

As long as you don't overload it with too much kit aim for around 20mpg for mixed driving of an overlanding prepped 80.
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Ok, so it sounds as thought, if I were to do my calcs based on approx 15mpg or about 5 and a bit km/l I will be well on the safe side.

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Dan,

Here are some figures I jotted down during my trip to Morocco, Mauritania, Mali and Senegal between Dec 05 and Jan 06, using a LC HDJ80 4.2 TD:

Total distance travelled- 7800 miles, of which:

Europe - 1550 miles
Africa - 6250 miles

Tarmac - 5900 miles
Off-road (including soft sand) - 1900 miles

My LC used 2120 litres of diesel, which gives an average consumption
of 19 l/100 km (14.9 mpg).

The longest distance between refueling points was 610 miles (980 km),
for which I used 220 litres of diesel (available capacity - 260L).
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Yep, thank goodness for google calculator.

Although they(google) seem to give mpg in US Gallons.
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UK gallons
You have to specify UK gallons I think.
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We will be using a 4.2 (non turbo)troop carrier and I will be using 18ltrs/100km for my budget calculation. I expect the load to be about 600kg (including fuel/water). We will be doing a similar route and I thought distance would be about 30,000km.
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I am busy doing africa in a 5 ton truck unimog and a tata 4.5 ton. both are armoured with b6+ and are very heavy. excl our kit, we are doing about 5 k's to the liter at 120 km/h so i think u should do a bit better than that!!

get the turbo! u wont be sorry.
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Thanks again, keep the figures comming!
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